Holly **** Immer, u are so right! I should have known, I'm reading a book about him. Lewis Burwell Puller was born June 26th, 1898. Happy Birthday Chesty wherever you are!!

What do I have do with this??

On another note, I had no idea who this was until this past weekend! When I started reading a book on the history of the marines! Happy Birthday Chesty!

"You won?t lag behind, because you?ll have the speed.
You?ll pass the whole gang and you?ll soon take the lead.
Wherever you fly, you?ll be the best of the best.
Wherever you go, you will top all the rest. " - - Dr. Seuss

The Chesty 50k, from the banks of the Rappahannock at State Hwy 673, past the tomb at Christchurch, down Hwy33 to the birthplace at West Point, VA and back, is planned tentatively for Labor Day, September 7, 2009........Well, at least it sounds worth a go.............

I have one the classic Chesty pictures hanging on my office wall. It was taken when he was a Regimental Commander in Korea. By coincidence, Lewis, Jr. and Ronald McLean, Jimmy Stewart's adopted son, were in the OCS class just ahead of mine. Both Chesty and Jimmy attended their graduation ceremony and my company was allowed to see them from afar. Ronald was killed in Vietnam. Lewis Jr. was horribly wounded and eventually took his own life. His book Fortunate Son won a Pulitzer.

This post saved me a lot of grief at home. You see I was so taken back by the daily grind and the fact that I was trying to get out of work early to go pick my oldest up at summer camp then I logged on right before walking out of work and saw this post. Here is where I was saved. I never knew it was Chesty's birthday but I do know who's birthday is on 26 June every year. It is my wife's birthday. So this post made me see the date for what it is and reminded me to get a birthdy card and schedule a dining out at her favorite place. It is a good thing we are not a fmily of big festivities and that we all just get small tokens for each other. Thanks Immer fopr keeping this Devil Dog out of the preverbial dog house!